It's been a day since the CDC exploded. We can't stay in Atlanta anymore, we have to move on. Fort Benning is our next option. We have to leave some cars behind: T-Dog's church van, Shane's Jeep, and Daryl's truck, but he will be driving Merle's motorcycle.
Rick went up to one of the buildings to call Morgan and Lori went over to me. "Hey, you okay?" She asked, wrapping her arm around my shoulder. I gave her a small smile and nodded. "Yeah."
"Listen, be careful around Shane, okay?" She asked. I frowned. "Why? Because of the CDC?" I asked. "That one of the reason," She replied. Rick walked over to us, the walkie in his hands and a sad look on his face. "Come on, we need to get going," He said. He walked over to Carol's Cherokee and climbed in the driver's seat.
"I'll see you guys later," I said and gave Lori a hug, and then waved to Rick and Carl. "You going with us, kid?" Shane asked as I walked over to the RV. "Yep," I said with a smile and he smiled back. "Get in, sweetheart," Dale said and I got into the RV. Andrea came into the RV after me.
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Dale drove the RV, following behind Daryl's motorcycle, and Lori and Rick were right behind us. I sat at the table with Shane and Andrea. I sit by the window next to Andrea, watching Shane cleaning some guns, including mine. "Looks complicated," Andrea said, looking at all the pieces.
"The trick is getting all these pieces back together the same way," He said as he took a brush and clean the barrel of my gun. "I could clean yours, show you how," Shane said to Andrea. He leaned over to the gun bag and pulled out Andrea's gun, and examined it. "It's a sweet piece."
"It was a gift from my father. He gave it to me just before Amy and I took off on our road trip," She said. "Smart man, your father," Shane said, "Look, it's a- It's a limited capacity. See? Only holds seven rounds."
"Oh, jeez," We heard Dale said from up front. I looked out the window and saw cars everywhere; they were scattered everywhere, looking abandon, and some were flipped over to the side.
Daryl rode up to us and stopped Dale's side. "See a way through?" Dale asked. Daryl nodded and turned the bike around. "Uh, maybe we should just go back," Glenn said, sitting at the passenger seat with the map in his hands, looking down at it. "There's an interstate bypass-" Dale cut him off, "We can't spare the fuel."
Dale moved the RV around the cars, following Daryl's lead. "Can we get through here?" Glenn asked. Suddenly, the RV stopped and the front started smoking. "Shoot!" Dale said, hitting the wheel. He got up from the driver seat. We follow him outside. "I said it. Didn't I say it? A thousand times. Dead in the water."
Rick, Lori, Carl, Carol and Sophia got out of the car and walked over to us to see what the problem was. "Problem, Dale?" Shane asked, looking around with the shotgun in his hand.
"Just a small matter of being stuck in the middle of nowhere with no hope of-" Dale trailed off, seeing Daryl looking in the back of an SUV and seeing all the abandon cars. "Okay, that was dumb."
"If you can't find a radiator hose here ..." Shane pointed out. "There's a whole bunch of stuff we can find," Daryl said. He pulled out a backpack out of the back of the car. "I can siphon more fuel from these cars for a start," T- Dog said, walking forward to look around. "Maybe some water. Or food," Carol said. "This is a graveyard," Lori said, causing us to look at her. "I don't know how I feel about this."
"Come on, y'all. Just look around, gather what you can," Shane ordered and everyone went their separate ways. "Quinn." I turned to look at Rick. He hold out to me my knife and I took it. "Stay close," He ordered and I nodded before walking away. I walked by the cars, looking around to see what I could find and making sure there wasn't any walkers in sight.
"Hey, Quinn," I heard Carl calling my name and I saw him and Sophia walking up to me. "Can we go with you? My Mom told us to stay at your sight," Carl said. I looked up to see, Lori and Carol looking in a flipped over Mini van. "Sure, let's look around," I said. They nodded and followed behind me.
"Lori, get under the car now!" I heard Rick's voice. I looked up and saw him running towards us. "Kids, under the car!" He ordered and crawled under a truck. I grabbed Carl and pulled him under a Jeep, Sophia crawled under a car next to us.
Suddenly, I saw a pair of feet stumble by us, another and another.
Walkers!
A huge group of them walked pass us, none of them noticed us ... Yet. They just walked by. Carl and I looked at each other and I tighten my grip on him. I looked back at Sophia, she looked at us with tears in her eyes. I hold my hand to her, telling her to be quiet and she will be okay.
She nodded and I looked around to find Carol, Lori and Rick, the three were looking at us, making sure that we'll be okay.